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Click here for the report entitled "Double Jeopardy: How Third-Grade Reading Skills and Poverty Influence High School Graduation". This report, as well as other theories have shaped the decision to focus on 3rd Grade ELA scores as part of the local ROC the Future (STRIVE) initiative.

Developed by Facing Race, Embracing Equity’s five action and change workgroups, the Racial Equity Community Agenda includes 20 strategic and measurable goals. Solutions to these goals, which can be implemented in the next three to five years, are intended to break down barriers caused by structural racism in the areas of housing, health disparities, jobs and economic opportunities, education, and criminal justice.